What does it feel like to get braces put on?
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hi I'm dr. Guymon one of the things
that I'm commonly asked in the exams
that I do is What does it feel like to
get braces put on? Does it hurt to get braces put on? How long does
it take to get braces put on? and What's it like getting braces put on?
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and so I thought it would be
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kind of cool that show a little video of
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us putting on braces on one of our
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patients and so that's what we're going
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to go through right now is step by step
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what we do or there's no magic to it and
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so I wanted to show you the video so
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that you felt comfortable of seeing what
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you were in for and what that whole
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experience is going to be like okay
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we're going to walk you through putting
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on braces and I'm going to use this
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patient that we're going to call her
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Sarah we're going to put on Sarah's
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braces right now and we start off by
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basically putting on a little cheek
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retractor and this cheek retractor holds
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the lips and cheeks away from the teeth
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which you'll see then we also use a
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little device that holds the tongue away
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from the teeth now the reason we want
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these guys in there is we want to keep
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the teeth as dry as possible once we
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start preparing the teeth and working on
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them we don't want the lips the saliva
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or the tongue to interfere with what
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we're doing and here you see that we're
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painting each individual tooth with a
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little cotton applicator and we're
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basically sterilizing the tooth surface
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and preparing it for the glue this glue
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is a special kind of glue that sticks to
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tooth surfaces only after they've been
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prepared with this special material once
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we put the sterilization agent on we
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rinse it and then we dry it off we want
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the teeth to be as dry as possible and
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then here you'll see me come in and put
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on each of the braces one at a time now
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the braces are the bracket we call them
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brackets each have a little bit of glue
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on them and we put them on the tooth
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just like you'd put a sticker on
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something so you put them on just like a
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sticker but the glue is not yet set or
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dried so it allows us to work with the
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braces so at this point we've had we
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have all the braces on the teeth one of
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the things you might notice at this
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stage also is that each of the teeth has
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a very specific bracket for it and so as
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a matter of fact we use six different
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types of brackets on the upper arch and
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five different types of brackets on the
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lower arch
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and they're a little bit different in
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shape and dimension some of them have
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hooks for rubber bands to where you can
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see those hooks on the brackets
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themselves and and so they're all very
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specific for the individual tooth
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they're they're moving here you can see
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that we're actually trying to get the
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angles of the brackets right so we're
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positioning them with a with what we
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call a scaler and now we're going in and
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we're actually measuring the height of
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each bracket now each bracket along with
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each tooth out in a specific bracket
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each mm for ideal bracket placement and
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so I'm using this measuring device and
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holding it at different angles to get
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the brackets right at the right
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measurements on each specific tooth a
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couple things I want to talk about with
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the specific brackets is that within
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those brackets they actually have a what
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we call a prescription built into them
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that prescription once we put a wire in
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that prescription dictates the
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angulation and the torque or inclination
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of each individual tooth as well as the
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height of each individual tooth within
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the mouth so one of the things that's
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important to me is when I go in and
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start putting on the braces I can
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already envision the teeth and their
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final position so I kind of begin with
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the end in mind I can already see the
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final results I can see the final smile
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before I even put on the braces
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now here you see the special light it's
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a basically a visible within the visible
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spectrum so it's not a laser or anything
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like that there's no heat that's
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generated from it it's just a very
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intense light that acts as a catalyst to
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make the glue harden and each bracket
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needs to be cured approximately 10 15
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seconds and we move on one bracket at a
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time and you can see as we finish moving
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the light across the glue that bracket
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is then set and it becomes a permanent
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permanent fixture on the teeth until we
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decide to take that bracket off and see
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really at this point there's not really
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any pain that goes into putting on the
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braces like I said it's just like
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putting stickers on the teeth doesn't
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feel real normal at first she has a hard
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time getting your lips over her teeth
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over her braces everything feels real
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bulky and thick now once we've got all
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the braces on we move to the next step
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which is putting the wires on to the
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braces themselves okay at this point
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sarah has all of her braces on we've
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used the light to make the glue hard and
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now she's ready for the next step which
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is to put her wires in now these wires
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are made of well we call them copper
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night tie wires they've got it basically
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this material was developed by NASA
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quite a while ago and it is a
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temperature sensitive wire that is also
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a shape memory wire now what that means
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is that this wire is very flexible but
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when it hits body temperature when it
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starts to warm up the wire always
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returns to its original straight shape
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so it's not like your standard wire that
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you'd find in you know building
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materials or or what have you it's a
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shape memory wire and so what that means
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is as we attach the wire to each
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individual bracket and you'll see that
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we're putting on her colored ties right
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now these colored ties although they're
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kind of cute and pretty really their
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only purpose is to hold the wire to the
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braces now you'll see this wire
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to get distorted as we go into the more
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crooked teeth and this wire what like I
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said once it hits body temperature it
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actually starts to return to its
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original straight shape so as that wire
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over time straightens out the teeth that
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you can see are crooked or the wire that
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you can see is crooked become straight
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and as the wire becomes straight the
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teeth becomes straight and so really the
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braces are just a handle on the tooth
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the ligature ties those rubber colored
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rubber rubber ties are nothing more than
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holding the wire to the handle and the
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wire is what puts the pressure on the
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teeth and causes the teeth to move now
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at this point she feels a little bit of
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pressure from the wire but again it's a
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very light flexible wire we start off
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with real light flexible wires and work
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up into heavier thicker rectangular
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wires some so the initial wire is very
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light forces but after about 3 to 4
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hours her teeth will start to feel
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tender she won't want to be chewing on
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anything hard so basically her diets
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going to consist for the first three
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days of swallowing type of foods or
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softer foods
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okay so there you go you just saw some
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give you a little clip of what it was
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like getting the braces off now
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obviously that was a little short
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version of the reality of it from
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starting to finish it probably takes us
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about an hour to put on braces and get
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everything done from start to finish so
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it's it's a little longer than what you
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saw there but we're not working on the
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patient the whole time so you're not
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sitting there with your mouth open and
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your cheek stretched out for the whole
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hour but but it does take about an hour
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to get the whole thing done now
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one of the things you notice that we
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don't have needles there's no needles
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there's no poking there's no blood
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there's no crying or or anything like
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that it's a pretty relaxed deal we
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talked through the whole thing now
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there's some points that you can't talk
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because we've got your cheek cheek
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straight out stretched out and your your
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tongue kind of held back but really the
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whole time you're just you should be
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pretty relaxed about this whole deal I
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don't know we put Paige put braces on
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patients as young as six or seven and
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you know really it's not a hard thing to
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go through now I will say that the next
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couple of days after braces
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that's a little more challenging that's
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when your teeth are going to be sore but
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in our office really there's we don't
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there's not a lot of pain and we'll
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you're at the office most of your
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soreness and tooth soreness is more of a
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dull soreness rather than a sharp pain
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and it usually happens a day later you
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know maybe at the earliest four hours
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after after an appointment but during
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the appointment itself you can see
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pretty relaxed pretty easy and again
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shouldn't be a lot of worries about
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what's going to happen here in the
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office glad you watched it hope you got
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something out of it hope watching that
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video set jetties we look forward to
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putting on your braces should be a great
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experience for you look forward to doing
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it for you
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